The administration designed the January arrangement to get the things it wanted without the burden of actually running a broken country. Now, the burden has been established anyway.
Donald Trump is far from the first foreign leader to get bad advice when it comes to Iran and its formidable antecedents
The Netanyahu government wants different things than the US, so even if Trump wanted to pursue peace, his 'partner' is likely to make things difficult
The new generation that has moved into place in the wake of US-Israeli assassinations is more hardline than the first
Conflict risks strengthening the country's most confrontational actors while narrowing the space for reformists
But don't think Tehran won't seek to bring down its Gulf neighbors along with it
